Comments on: How to tell android which volume (media/ringtone etc.) should be controlled by your app

By: Sonja

Sonja — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:28:55 +0000

Forgot to say, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC is the one that sets”Music/video volume”, might be helpful

By: Sonja

Sonja — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:26:43 +0000

Thanks! And if you want to just have maximum media volume when your application is started, use

AudioManager audioManager = (AudioManager) this.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
audioManager.setStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, audioManager.getStreamMaxVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC), 0);

in your onResume() (and good practie would be to turn it down in onPause()), where the last param “flags” (here 0) sets how this change should be indicated, 0 means “not”, AudioManager.FLAG_PLAY_SOUND for example plays some beep at the new volume level!

By: David Shellabarger

David Shellabarger — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:25:28 +0000

Wow that’s easy.
Thanks for the tip.
First hit on Google.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:00:52 +0000

Thanks so much! This has also been bugging me and there isn’t anything online I could find!

By: mat

mat — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:35:09 +0000

@Jarcikon, good tip, thanks

By: Jarcikon

Jarcikon — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:01:11 +0000

If you need to reset the volume control back to the default, there is one other value you can use:

this.setVolumeControlStream(AudioManager.USE_DEFAULT_STREAM_TYPE);

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:00:11 +0000

Cheers for this tip, I was looking for something this simply explained in the android SDK!

By: OC

OC — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:34:29 +0000

Thanks. That’s been bugging me for a while. Play testers kept saying “It doesn’t make sense!!!! Volume this, volume that.”
Not much on-line to help with this issue either.

By: scheich

scheich — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:19:11 +0000

thx